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Apple Cash in iOS 27 Will Help You Split Bills With Just a Photo

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iOS 27 will include a nice quality-of-life improvement for those who frequently split bills with friends and family, allowing them to easily take a photo of a receipt and generate payment requests for different people, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

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The feature will be tied to the peer-to-peer Apple Cash feature in the Wallet app, which lets users easily send money to other people and even make purchases.

Gurman says that Apple is intending to announce the new feature "as early as next week" at WWDC, and it should be included in the upcoming ‌iOS 27‌ release. Notably, Apple Cash is currently only available in the United States.

The bill-splitting feature will be available through the Wallet and Messages apps, and users will be able to approve payments from an Apple Watch.

This functionality isn't the only Apple Wallet improvement coming ‌iOS 27‌, as the update will also bring the ability to let users create their own digital passes by scanning items like movie tickets, concert passes, and gym membership cards.

Related Roundup: iOS 27
Tags: Apple Cash, Bloomberg, Mark Gurman

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gomichaelgo
2 days ago at 12:14 pm

I guess this is cool, but is it really hard to split bills in this day and age? One person pay and divide by the number of people or pay for your share 🤯
Yeah, but if this feature could split the bill by items and include the tax and tip portion, that would be awesome. Not everyone drinks (which adds a lot to a tab)
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carswell
2 days ago at 12:23 pm
Or you could just pull up your phone's calculator -- or use a pen and a napkin -- to divide it yourself and then tell the other people around the table how much they owe.

There are reports that kids are no longer able to tell time using a non-digital clock. This is the AI analogue of that. One of the many downsides of AI is that it's going to make people in many ways dumber and less capable of fending for themselves in the world.
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mattopotamus
2 days ago at 12:10 pm
I guess this is cool, but is it really hard to split bills in this day and age? One person pay and divide by the number of people or pay for your share 🤯
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BeatsByTim
2 days ago at 11:30 am
Why would this need to be tied to apple cash?
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Spinarelo
2 days ago at 12:34 pm

Why would I take a picture of the bill like it's the year 2019? I thought new Siri was supposed to figure these things out for me just by asking?
Because you can itemize the bill and assign certain items to certain people. This isn’t a plain vanilla split the bill total by x ways tool. It scans the bill’s items and you assign who had what then calculates their total
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mattopotamus
1 day ago at 05:47 am

This is bizarre to me. Most modern restaurants can give separate bills to people. But in the case of one person covering the whole thing and others paying him equally...well, that's 1 second of brain function to figure that out.
It's pretty common in places like Chicago and Boston to not split checks. Boston (probably 15-20 years ago) was the first place I encountered this. They legit will not split checks at many places.

It's really a non-issue now with things like venmo, but prior to that it was a pain in the ass eating out in a group.
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